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Newsgroups: alt.2600
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Subject: Cocots which were untouchable are no more!
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Date: Sun Jun 12 15:15:06 1994
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Have you ever tried to use that 1-800 trick to use a cocot and it refuses to
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give you that beloved unrestricted dialtone? The reason that I have been told
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for this is that the system does not reset if you make the call, which can
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be supported by making the same type of call from your own phone. I did and
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it did not reset either! But a friend of mine has found a way around this.
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What you need to find (according to my friend) is a set of two cocots which
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sit next to each other. Using the number listed on the phones, or the current
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ani you have, call one phone from the other phone. As soon as the other phone
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rings pick it up and hang up the phone you made the call from. You ought to
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have an unrestricted dialtone on that phone!
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You see what happens is that the system will not reset if you make the call,
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but if someone else makes the call and they hang up it will reset. The best
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part (according to this friend) is that the quarter you use to make the call
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drops out, apparently because the call was so short, who knows.
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Some other tricks he has found with cocots include calling these cocots from
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home, wherein the modem inside the machine picks up and transmits a small
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bit of data at 300 baud. The information includes its address, the current
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date and time, and how much money is inside its coinbox. Afterwhich it hangs
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up. Pretty neat eh?
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This friend also found that by picking up some cocots and pressing #*2 or
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other #* combinations, that the modem will pick up, dial phone number, connect
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to a system and transmit data! Weird eh? Some other combinations include
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error messages and on one machine **# entered into a menu system that could
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change the time and default number to call when you hit #*2, and even the
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option to turn it off (though my friend is likely bullshitting about turning
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it off). Also, I might have the *# thingy backwards.
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Anyways, I thought I would just pass this information on.
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